Swamp Witch- Jim Stafford
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11 жыл бұрынThe above art/image creations by the following artists in the order their images appear in the video. Their entire galleries can all be seen on the Deviant Art Web Site.
Down on the blue bayou by ~Angelinleather
morning fisherman by ~stevenwaynesmith
swamp witch by ~khisanth
Witch Hut by ~mangis
sWAMP wITCH by *DarkGeometryArt
Eyes of the bayou by ~MigraineSky
Witch's cottage by ~vespalock
The way to the wich by ~ortheza
The Witches by ~navate
Crossing the Marshes by ~Grumbleputty
Nettie's Room by ~Annika-86
Swamp Witch by *monorok--darkgeometryart
Witch Hut by Ebae
525 large Swamp Shack by Cmacleod (CGHUB) cghub.com/images/view/190552/
Swamp Shack by Cmacleod
Swamp by ~AlexShatohin
d1646 Swamp by Karol Kolodzinski digitalartserved.com/gallery/Swamp/7523587
Swamp Tragedy by *augustok
Swamp fever by *AndreeWallin
Swamp V premade By by =StarsColdNight
Bayou Runners by ~charco
Witch House by *APetruk
Tales of the Bayou by *Silver5
@mikebusch1524 2 жыл бұрын
Turned my wife onto this song several years ago. She just loved it. Cancer took her out june of 2020. Everytime I play it reminds me of her. She will always be in my heart!
@allanro28 2 жыл бұрын
I hope you find some peace. God be with you.
@weebobo955 11 ай бұрын
Love you brother keep strong ❤❤
@arthurchadwell9267 11 ай бұрын
My sympathy for your loss.
@svaught1 11 ай бұрын
I’m sorry you lost your wife. 💕😞
@raymurdock2630 11 ай бұрын
I feel for you, lost my Granddaughter to cancer in 2019 the hole will never heal. My heart goes out to you!!
@JohnnyHawkins-mt9rc 8 ай бұрын
Jim Stafford was always underrated !
@enzothebaker22 Жыл бұрын
Hot summer nights, we didn't have air conditioning, windows open and a young kid listening to his transistor AM radio...it was a special time.
@dhart8451 19 күн бұрын
Yup, I'm right there with you. Many times I would fall asleep with the transistor radio under my pillow which meant it was time for a new battery the next night.
@Otterpoptheotter Күн бұрын
Sounds like pure bliss
@persiashipley3079 2 жыл бұрын
I'm from Okeechobee Florida & this story is true, the swamp is no place to mess around especially in Gator country, ✌️💘🔥💯☑️
@honestj820 11 ай бұрын
Hey
@persiashipley3079 4 ай бұрын
Hay
@dhart8451 19 күн бұрын
Just a guess but are you related to Black Water Hati ??
@norbertsiewert3917 4 жыл бұрын
A Southern swamp does have a special ambience, with its smells, the heat, humidity, and plants. Haunting, sinister, but somehow romantic. Particularly at dawn and dusk.
@user-vg8jx4gf4t 5 ай бұрын
I'm here bro NC SC swamp
@TerpsichoreanSelenophile 2 ай бұрын
It really is. I grew up in it in Louisiana, more on the water than on dry land. That's a great description.
@duskintheforest584 Ай бұрын
The wetlands at our coastal wildlife refuge are pretty swampy, hostile terrain, but after nightfall, you hear all kinds of sounds and see those shy critters looking for food
@georgesedares8036 3 жыл бұрын
A shame so many folks didn't know how talented Jim Is.
@athenabrunson4381 2 жыл бұрын
100 percent agree with u
@msmoonbeam91 2 жыл бұрын
Exactly so many good songs. My favorite has always been Cow Patty.
@bobhayes1167 Жыл бұрын
Distorted body image insecurity
@bobhayes1167 Жыл бұрын
Ready for having your his baby 🍼
@bobhayes1167 Жыл бұрын
It takes 2 you know
@milescoburn1845 3 жыл бұрын
The last line of the song, “Don’t come lookin’ again”, still gives me chills.
@bramcurtis6900 3 жыл бұрын
Gives me goose bumps
@waynegrubb3291 3 жыл бұрын
That is so true 🙂. Hopefully, he has a video of Wildwood Weed
@dbert7063 3 жыл бұрын
This song is the swamp! Pelosihady tried building a fence around the shack to keep the evil in !!
@dougarnold7955 3 жыл бұрын
Hello!!! ...right. 😁👍
@michaelmorris1030 3 жыл бұрын
That be right, you don't want to come looking again no , stay in your place I stay in mine !
@costrio Жыл бұрын
My favourite Jim Stafford song and the line "...kept folks off the track of Haddie's shack in the back of the black Bayou." Awesome graphics, nicely done. thanks
@rockdog2584 5 жыл бұрын
Such an awesomely dark, wonderfully mysterious tune! Too bad nobody wants to do this kind of music anymore. Brings back memories of those Friday and Saturday nights cruising the main drag of town back in the seventies!!!
Ай бұрын
And 60s
@batlady2 10 жыл бұрын
For sure. You got the message this song is trying to make. Its also about judging someone we don't know just because their ways are different from our own. Its amazing how so many people relate to this song in so many ways. It will always remain a timeless classic because of that.
@irisgonzalez-caulder9352 3 жыл бұрын
Bat Lady It will always remain a timeless classic because of That ? nope. Because of Matthew 7:1-29 song - Ink Is Black Page Is White
@gregamerson9172 3 жыл бұрын
@@irisgonzalez-caulder9352 old 3 dog night title ain't it
@kristinasportal 2 жыл бұрын
Amen to that.
@frankgray6718 2 жыл бұрын
You never know who might be touched by what we say or do so be careful to lift each other up so that we all can make life a good and wonderful thing.
@georgeotterman7017 2 жыл бұрын
And the moral and lesson of this story is; don't mess with Witches!! 🤣
@golgothapro Жыл бұрын
I think this song defined the man's genuiss. It's one of the most artfully put together ballads I've ever heard.
@cowgirlmoon 10 ай бұрын
Yes, this was a good start to Jim Stafford's genius, but I think Cow Patty takes it a step further.
@golgothapro 10 ай бұрын
@@cowgirlmoon I never heard that one though I can guess why. I'll have to check that out.
@cameroneichmann6561 9 ай бұрын
It's more of a poem aye!
@golgothapro 9 ай бұрын
Yes, but he makes subtle imrovisations in the music to support the mood of each statement which itegrates the two in a most tasteful manner. @@cameroneichmann6561
@raymondcrowell7922 3 ай бұрын
The music is amazing!
@jameswhitney2450 3 жыл бұрын
Amazing how quiet and powerful...and creepy...this is. Can imagine him writing about contemporary issues in the same understated way. Way to go, Jim!
@jerryedwards4489 2 жыл бұрын
i think the song is fantastic& the artist knocked that way out of the park with the painting timed it just right to the song,keep painting🧜♀️🧜♀️🧜♀️🧜♀️🧜♀️🧜♀️🧜♀️🧜♀️🧜♀️🧜♀️
@raymondwatts7935 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah what's creepy about this song is not Hattie, it's how quick the popularity contest of those who are mainstream and Mindless the let out the cry, crusify!
@Deeharris3634 8 ай бұрын
I still like this song after all these years. 🧟
@Amaranthine1000 Жыл бұрын
I loved listening to this, so haunting and spooky with such a poignant message, lyrically brilliant and performed even better.
@harleydavidson6851 5 жыл бұрын
EVERY thing was Better then! Cars, Clothes, Music! God I Miss it All.
@athenabrunson4381 3 жыл бұрын
soooooo true
@hah5247 3 жыл бұрын
@Harley Davidson Hey biker....have you ever thought about a way to bring them days back in some supernatural way or another,life then will be magical. I for one,will chew gum and tap dance at the same time.when that song came out life was not appreciated,now we have this pandemic,I wish you well and safety.keep on biking
@Nixfix76 3 жыл бұрын
Yep
@hah5247 3 жыл бұрын
@Harley Davidson Harley davidson back then(XR750) to my recollection was a cool bike, so as the Moto Guzzi.never owned either,I was dirt poor.but I did get Jim's album,and it was a big hit allover the airwaves,Detroit back then with their sport cars,sure enough they owned the world.
@jinxismissing 3 жыл бұрын
True true
@ralphniederlander9429 4 жыл бұрын
Been so long since I've heard this. Ballads are a lost musical art form . Music that told a story and moved ones ❤️. Mr Stafford was one of the best
@jonesfotodirector 4 жыл бұрын
I totally agree, although Jim is still living in the present tense...!
@ferdtergesin9927 4 жыл бұрын
Don't exclude Mr. Jerry Reed from that genre!
@hah5247 3 жыл бұрын
@@ferdtergesin9927 thank you for your music observations.jerry reed's"amos moses" song sure takes the biscuit.how about (three little pigs)by "green jelly".....10--4.
@MrUsoutlaw 3 жыл бұрын
a lot of hair metal fallow a narrative listen to Sabaton's Bismark
@hah5247 3 жыл бұрын
@@MrUsoutlaw right on friend....right on the money couldn't say it any better.
@redwilldanaher 4 жыл бұрын
Jim Stafford is some sort of demented genius. He fits an atmospheric ghost story and morality fable into four minutes, and it's musically striking too. The artwork fits nicely BTW.
@johnlongenecker7779 6 жыл бұрын
I always thought Jim Stafford was WAY underrated as a singer/songwriter. This song is FANTASTIC!!! I saw him with The Smothers Brothers and Joan Rivers WAY the hell back in the very early 80's. This song always gave me goosebumps.
@vinceryan6454 4 жыл бұрын
How about back in the late 60's, that when I first learned of him!
@bearkobb7413 4 жыл бұрын
He was also one heck of a guitar player.
@MrUsoutlaw 3 жыл бұрын
I would not call this singing
@dondrury9851 3 жыл бұрын
@@MrUsoutlaw get an ear for old school country numb nuts
@jeffscott8323 3 жыл бұрын
Dawm you must be an old fart too
@scark00 Жыл бұрын
Always loved all of Jim’s music. An incredible talent.
@fullthrottlejeffry 3 жыл бұрын
To quote Redbone's song Witch Queen.... "All tha Cajun folk know that a Witch Queen can never die..."
@anthonyjordan2922 Жыл бұрын
I remember listening to this as a kid with a wild imagination. Creepy then, and just as wonderfully creepy now.
@skitt123 4 жыл бұрын
Snakes hang thick from the cypress trees like sausage on a smokehouse wall.
@hah5247 3 жыл бұрын
@ Scot Sanford...yum..yum.keep'em coming.sausages,snausages what's the difference.
@bossanova5709 4 жыл бұрын
"...but the talk got shackled by the howls and the cackles from the bowels of the black bayou." This song never gets old. Love it. Great slideshow. Thanks.
@rkt137 4 жыл бұрын
Best line EVER!
@ronniewall1481 4 жыл бұрын
I'm about five miles from the Black Bayou.
@craigcoleman9326 2 жыл бұрын
What a special talent Jim Stafford was I enjoyed his music and his personality rest in peace Jim
@PiMpiNx187 2 жыл бұрын
Hes not dead hes 77
@craigcoleman9326 2 жыл бұрын
@@PiMpiNx187 I knew that he has his thing in Branson wonder why I thought he was dead
@joefairchild6271 Жыл бұрын
@@craigcoleman9326 saw him two weeks ago at the Florida Folk Festival. Lightning shut down the electrical equipment and he played acoustical sitting few feet from the audience. Fantastic talent and humor.
@beeonthyme5760 3 жыл бұрын
The swamp really is alive with a thousand eyes ....and all of them trained on you.
@shanem986 2 жыл бұрын
Jim could see words in a world no ones else could see. His way of delivering songs were so good.
@bruenpeer8454 Жыл бұрын
Yeah! 😂 Jim could see wonders! Nice comment Shane!!!! Like the cricketer! 🤣Shane Warne!
@dawnleehufnagel4242 4 жыл бұрын
Always loved this song Haddie just wanted to live in peace. She came through and saved the town but let them know to leave her alone
@patriciajrs46 3 жыл бұрын
That is a very intersting last name. I have it, or have seen it somewhere else. I just remember where or when. Ha. Memory, going, going, gone.
@chuyhighman6927 4 ай бұрын
I Just LOVE This Song !!! Happy New Year 2024 !!!
@TREEMAN111 2 жыл бұрын
"It came from the Black Bayou" There ain't much pride when you're trapped inside A slowly sinkin' ship Scooped up the liquid deep and green And the whole town took a sip Fever went away and the very next day the skies again were blue Let's thank old Hattie for savin' our town We'll fetch her from the Black Bayou
@badgerrrlattin35 Жыл бұрын
Party of 10 of the towns best men headed for Hatties shack.....
@luxitos2867 11 ай бұрын
Said Swamp Witch magic was useful and good and we're gonna bring Hattie back...
@davebeach2343 2 жыл бұрын
Such a perfect song for our times, with preachers telling their flock that there's actual real witches in church with them. This song was a favorite hearing it on radio. It's better with your visuals backing up the story. Thanks for taking the time to make this.
@t4texastom587 4 ай бұрын
I definitely remember this neat song from 1974 recorded by the great Jim Stafford. For those that play and love guitar, there's some real cool chords in this song. What a musical genius Jim was.... and STILL is.🎸
@KnEpH131 6 жыл бұрын
Wonderful Job with the video meshed with the song! Thank you. I have always loved this song since I first heard it years and years ago. "A parchment note they found tacked to a stump said, "Don't come lookin' agian"." Still give me shivers up my spine.
@RIDETHESUNSHINE 9 жыл бұрын
“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.” George Carlin
@lessanders8322 2 жыл бұрын
Dedicated to my late Brother..... For you ''BEAR'', your favorite song..... I love and miss you.
@cindyh8017 27 күн бұрын
Loved Jim Stafford. Fun singing to this swampy song! Grew up in Florida. Those stringers of swamp. ❤😂❤😂
@FernandoGonzalez-gt8tm Жыл бұрын
Remember seeing Jim Stafford every week on his variety show as a kid. He was always entertaining. Singer/ songwriter/ actor. I do believe that he performs in Branson,MO. along with other country greats.
@batlady2 10 жыл бұрын
You are welcome. He sang wild wood weed and spiders and snakes too! His music is classic!
@lonnieporter8566 3 жыл бұрын
Don't forget Cow Patti!
@55Quirll 3 жыл бұрын
Remember Wild Wood Weed, like to see what the Feds would do with it today. Great video upload.
@eoj2495 3 жыл бұрын
.. and My Girl Bill
@gunzmith29r 3 жыл бұрын
dont forget,his wife bobby gentry who wrote and sang and produced ode to billy joe,a very big hit.
@55Quirll 3 жыл бұрын
@@gunzmith29r Thanks for that, didn't know he was married let alone to Bobby Gentry. Both great singers.
@kenwelch198 7 жыл бұрын
I can't believe I never heard this song before! Great job on putting the graphics together!
@unknownartist1013 2 жыл бұрын
Used to listen to this entire album over and over, waaaaay back when albums were a thang, haha. Love me some Jim Stafford. Thank you batlady2 for posting. Appreciate you.
@TinedeJong 5 жыл бұрын
Great good and a beautiful country song from 1974. Not heard for a long time. Thank you for sharing.
@batlady2 11 жыл бұрын
Well I love Florida the best. I lived there for one whole year. If I had my choice of living any where in the US it would be Florida. I lived in an apartment that had a screened in balcony that looked out over this pond that had ducks, cranes, turtles, fish and even an aligator in it. At night I would sit out there and listen to all the night creatures singing their songs. I absolutely LOVED it!
@travistoor6360 4 жыл бұрын
You lived in tourist Florida. The natives live in real Florida a dcwe protect it any way we can
@chazel7588 3 жыл бұрын
I'm from the area.
@130alon 2 жыл бұрын
Well hello from St. Pete, Fl. C'mon down!
@csc269 10 жыл бұрын
NOT YOUR TYPICAL..."OH , BABY ,BABY " BULLSHIT...FANTASTIC SONG...I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR JIM'S SECOND ALBUM FOR YEARS .
@delavalmilker 6 жыл бұрын
As soon as you hear the first few bars of this song, you are immediately transported to the deep South, where "the swamp is alive with a thousand eyes, and all of them watching you".
@dannygjk 6 жыл бұрын
This tune has everything. The vocals, lyrics, and music combination unbeatable.
@pistoleroshooter2575 5 жыл бұрын
I grew up listening to Jim Stafford, loved him then, love him now, thank you.
@alandhopewell 9 жыл бұрын
Been lovin' this song for over forty years, and the visuals make it all the more special.
@SueRobinson1997 5 жыл бұрын
ditto!!!
@MadbatThe1st 4 жыл бұрын
And one of the few who give credit, double thumbs.
@glennf918 4 жыл бұрын
HEARD THIS TRACK WHEN I WAS 15YRS OF AGE NOW IM 62 STILL LOVE IT ONLY GOOD SONG HE EVER SANG
@shakesperezen6078 4 жыл бұрын
I still love these songs from my youth😊..songs back then had a beautiful way of not just being simply good tunes,but they told stories..and my fave ones were the strange creepy sort O ones like this one..bein birthed in 64' one got yo grow up with the soundtrack that would remain with you for life,even as you grew older..the songs were there as if gifted to you for your own personal playlist for living an life..I still know,and still play the music,know all the words, all the musos and all the genre styles.,and I will love them till my light shines no more and my atoms and particles turn to dust and then return to the stars in dark skies above💙😏💙.. (/-\)..✊✌..
@witchywoman7903 4 жыл бұрын
So have I
@gruntqueen 10 ай бұрын
The lyrics are easily learned. When everyone at your backyard gathering is sitting around a fire pit, mesmerized by the flames, trot this out as a simple recitation. Folks love it.
@dannycelovsky5362 2 жыл бұрын
I am sorry man. About 3.7 million views of this, I might be responsible for about 3,6 million of them.. I love this man. I keep coming back to it. 3.6 million times I guess This is awesome art.
@batlady2 2 жыл бұрын
I'm glad you enjoy my video so much that you come back and listen to it so many times. Thanks for letting me know how much you like it Danny!
@InfiDale3476 2 жыл бұрын
3.6 million and 1
@dannycelovsky5362 2 жыл бұрын
@@InfiDale3476 3,600,002 views . fuck it. One more time 3,600,003 people like you make life worth living. lol :o)
@backwoodsdad3214 4 жыл бұрын
Also. Love to all the artists that did such a wonderful job putting this all together ❤
@shadowyn5540 10 жыл бұрын
Ask any one form New Orleans...You don't mess with swamp folk
@jackieboscher6417 5 жыл бұрын
shadowyn5540 I heard about Hadi the swamp which when I was six years old as a story from my grandmother who was Cajun French I just heard the song on KZfaq and I was in shock that it was made into a song exactly the way almost exactly the way it was told to me as a story people from New Orleans know this is true I love this
@aprilcouvillion6167 4 жыл бұрын
True Dat NOLA forever
@radishfox308 4 жыл бұрын
@@jackieboscher6417 Bullshit. The song is set in Florida. Stop making things up for likes
@chupacabraracing181 4 жыл бұрын
@@radishfox308 Okeechobee boy here. U are correct. This ain't a song bout Louisiana
@anagray7521 4 жыл бұрын
Jordan Davis where else do they use the word bayou
@michaeldaltonsr8954 7 ай бұрын
My wife & I were married in 1972(@19&20) sose we were Hippie Dippies!! We heard a lot of Jim Stafford in his break-out year of 1974. Neither one of us can now remember hearing "Swamp Witch" more than twice. Nice graphics/good vid, TY!! My wife hated "Cow Patti", only because she worked w/ a girl, that played it on constant replay😅😅!! Karma struck, again, when our oldest daughter began dating a bum on a moped. We referred to him as a MO-PAGAN!! And be danged if Karma didn't smack us again, w/ our grandson. But, there is hope for our gr-grandson, so far, he a good child.
@lizzbee4110 7 ай бұрын
My dad introduced me to this song many years ago. Now we both love it. ❤
@scottyhorneyjr8619 2 жыл бұрын
Still rockin this song today lol. Good music never dies
@backwoodsdad3214 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing. I've missed this song for nearly 40 yrs including the unforeseen natural forces. That's what made this song come together so well.
@katharper655 Жыл бұрын
I used to live for a brief while in a shotgun shack built out in a cypress swamp by my 3 X Great Uncle...on a good day I would walk to this itty bitty town spittin' distance from Lake Okeechobee. Little store looked like SOMETHING outta "Fried Green Tomatoes". I'd get an RC cola and a vanilla moon pie. I also bought an "orange faucet" a plastic tube with a jagged end. Stick it in an orange..twist it pull the plug of orange out. Stick the tube back in and drink the best orange juice ever.. I was 11. Good days...
@honestj820 11 ай бұрын
Hey how are you doing?
@katharper655 11 ай бұрын
@@honestj820 Still in Florida. Married an Irish import-HE moved here LEGALLY-His Dad was an Irish antiquarian who taught Early Modern .
@honestj820 11 ай бұрын
@@katharper655 Nice meeting you here where are you originally from?
@allenlovell1604 Жыл бұрын
I thought I knew all his songs 🎵 ! Curiously, I don't remember ever hearing this song until I found this on KZfaq. It's catchy and reminds me of the Legend of Boggy Swamp and the Monster Mash !Thanks for posting this one. Now I gotta find out what other lost songs he did I never heard before.
@acerjuglans383 4 жыл бұрын
I never heard this song until summer 2019, when I was 50 years old, and now I can't stop listening to it.
@charleshollingsworth7768 3 жыл бұрын
My dad had it on a various artist 8 track tape when the tape broke did not here it for 30 years.
@luciferdeuce1 3 жыл бұрын
"Hattie's Brew" Sure could use something like it now!
@waynegrubb3291 3 жыл бұрын
Ain't that the truth 😏.
@jeffscott8323 3 жыл бұрын
We need Trumps brew to save this Country
@julieowens7087 3 жыл бұрын
The antichrist is in control now God save us all
@eileenarmstrong5267 3 жыл бұрын
Hattie G was a great woman
@eileenarmstrong5267 3 жыл бұрын
It was said that she took this sickness into her body and became decrepit
@l.salisbury1253 3 жыл бұрын
Jim Stafford was WAAAYYYY ahead of his time! With this and "Jasper" he combines Country/Western... and GOTH!
@TheFatstuff 7 ай бұрын
In my opinion this is one of the finest songs ever written, period. This is a story in a song. Jim Stafford does not get the recognition that he deserves. I have played this song many a time for my kids and I always tell them this song would make an excellent movie. All from a 4 minute song
@sonnylovejoy7058 3 жыл бұрын
Some friends and i were driving on a old road in the mid 70's coming around a turn was a girl walking down it as we passed her she had those pale blue eyes that could look right through you we said hi her also on are return trip back never saw her again of course so we named the road Hattie's ! Thanks for two great videos ! and Jim Stafford for the song !
@allenm4750 7 жыл бұрын
I remember this song from my younger days. The montage assembled for this video is first rate! The woman's eyes at 1:15 reflected in the water and the alligator's eyes is haunting...like the song.
@teenapittman4241 4 жыл бұрын
I have never been in the Florida swamp, but in Louisiana, and MS'sippi swamp, it's creepy during high water, fog, when it is cold, and after dark. We had a houseboat in southern Ms'sippi, Pearl River swamp for many years. I could swear that during high water that I could see something just below the rippling water and hear the water whispering, early in the morning and right at dark. It seemed like it was whispering about or to me. It could have been just knowing how dangerous rivers and swamp are tho. I loved the river when I was young and unafraid, til I was about 45, but the older I got, I grew to dislike it
@kennyhuskisson2684 4 жыл бұрын
So true, I lived in Pearl, Miss. For 8 years back in the 70s👍✌
@vickieb657 4 жыл бұрын
Teena Pittman , the Singing River? There are stories that you can hear it when the times are right.
@shereedomine582 6 жыл бұрын
The art work is fantastic! This song was written and performed in "my day"! I understood it then, and I appreciate a younger generation is appreciating the words now! There are "Hatties" -that live and have lived... meaning what? We wear hats!? Yes, we do!
@travistoor6360 4 жыл бұрын
The okeechobee legend lives on....
@chemcokeith6533 6 жыл бұрын
"but the talk got shackled by the howls and the cackles from the bowels of the balck bayou" maybe the greatest double rhyme lyric ever. EVER!!!!
@redgarcia1427 Ай бұрын
My Sis introduced me to this song years ago! She loved it!! R.I.P. Sis!!✌🐢
@andromedapalazzolo3535 4 жыл бұрын
🧲🔥🌊🌪✨🧿🔮🦠🌈“ - those unforeseen forces” 👁
@suttonknight8625 4 жыл бұрын
I had every note and word of this song memorized when I was a kid. Still gives me goosebumps today. Love it! This would be the perfect end song for the movie version of Where the Crawdads Sing!
@honestj820 11 ай бұрын
Hello how are you doing?
@steveouk90126 4 жыл бұрын
This song scared the crap out of me when I was little. I didn't understand the "slowly sinking ship" metaphor back then, but otherwise it's a great little story.
@chriskeate936 3 жыл бұрын
Same here man. I grew up in the mountains of Northern California cabin. We had no electricity, just a generator. My dad would play this song and he would tell me she lived in the woods behind the house. I would stay up for hours terrified, and looking out the window. Good times lol
@eddieboggs8306 3 жыл бұрын
@@chriskeate936 Ever notice years ago the world over parents told children scarey stories to keep them in line? Today it would be considered psychological child abuse. Baba Yaga get you if you don't behave. Oooooo.
@DukeDavenport-kt8oh Ай бұрын
Brings back memories when I was younger
@getdusty1 3 жыл бұрын
Does anyone remember this event?? It scared me to DEATH. I was newly married and had just come home from work. I turned on the TV and the Mike Douglas Show (or some variety hour show they had in the afternoons back then) was on and Jim Stafford did this one. Mike welcomed him onto the stage and then the killed ALL the lights and had dry ice "snaking" all over the floor and Jim started into this. I'll NEVER forget that moment as long as I live. It was the most spell binding four minutes of my life!!!!!
@batlady2 3 жыл бұрын
I remember reading one of the comments here where someone was saying they remembered seeing that episode on the Mike Douglas Show. There are a lot of comments so you would have to scroll through them all to find it but its here somewhere because I remember reading it.
@markritter3064 7 жыл бұрын
Great artwork to go with a memorable song from my childhood. As a tween, I would fall asleep at night listening to my clock radio, which didn't have a sleep function so it stayed on all night long. Once, I woke up from a nightmare very much inspired by this song that was playing at the time. To this day, it remains one of the creepiest experiences of my life!
@UnseelieRose 3 жыл бұрын
Being a magical practitioner and mythology enthuiast living in Florida, I love that this witchy tale is based on Okeechobee folklore. No matter where it came from, however, it would still be a great yarn and the lyrics would still be poetic. Those are some of the things that really make a great song. I will listen to things like this, Iron Maiden, and Celtic ballads all day long before I listen to some modern-day pop singer complain about their latest break up. LOL!
@twobalcain 2 жыл бұрын
Single male raising daughter solo. Teaching her the old ways. Thank you for this song. Ill be ok for a few more days!
@papaowl13803 3 жыл бұрын
This is such a classic but never gets old. First heard this in the 70s. Then on and off over the years. Now you have it here. 1, hope it stays. 2 absolutely in love with the graphics. 3 thank you yt. And 4 thank you batlady2 for posting this classic. Yeaaaa I'm happy,happy happy.
@stewartwalraven7887 2 жыл бұрын
This is an Underrated gem.
@batlady2 10 жыл бұрын
LOL! I remember the 8 track days. I was in high school and drove a little red Pinto that had an 8 track tape player in it!
@lonnieporter8566 3 жыл бұрын
'65 Malibu had an 8-track! I remember those days well!
@robbielawshe715 3 жыл бұрын
I had 1979 pinto hatchback all glass
@batlady2 3 жыл бұрын
@@robbielawshe715 I had a 1974 pinto. Plain and red with black interior and a 8 track tape player of which I mostly played Creedence clear water revival on. I wrecked it when me and 4 of my girl friends were all going up to the lake. We walked around the emergency room in our bathing suites. One time we all piled into that car and skipped school. The Principle was standing out in front the school and saw us drive by. We all ducked including me. Next day the Principle called me over and said "funny thing happened to me yesterday standing out in front of the school. I saw a little red Pinto rolling down the street and no one was driving it! Imagine that!" I lived in a small town. No one else had a little red Pinto but me. I could never get by with any thing. I graduated high school in 1975.
@annramsey7907 3 жыл бұрын
My pinto was powder blue. Loved that car we went everywhere on $2 worth of gas.
@jeffscott8323 3 жыл бұрын
Good old 8 tracks.
@sandrajackson854 2 жыл бұрын
I always wanted to be Hattie. Trivia: Jim Stafford was married to Bobbie Gentry, who gave us Ode to Billie Joe. Two great storytellers.
@honestj820 11 ай бұрын
Hey how are you doing?
@batlady2 3 жыл бұрын
Hi tis I batlady2 maker of this video! First Thank you all for letting me know you liked it and second just so you know my favorite line in this song is "aint much pride when you're trapped inside a slowly sinking ship. Scooped up the liquid deep and green and the whole town took a sip". Makes me think of all the anti vaciners out there who end up standing in line for their arm poke.
@dougarnold7955 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much. I loved this song as a kid. It was on the radio a lot about the time of Gypsies Tramps and Thieves and Amos Moses. I was real young ...seven ish? ...we had just moved to Maine. I really like the collage and how you timed the hypnotic water drop. So cool. 👍 ...excellent taste. 😍 ...oh, yeah I can't decide what my fav line is. There's so many good ones and the simplicity of how he tells the story is amazing. He stitches it together so effortlessly. I do remember as a kid particularly liking the part where he's describing the snakes. As a kid that was probably the part i enjoyed the most. At the age I was it was hard to understand the whole story.
@prestonwright2026 3 жыл бұрын
It is awesome
@paullanier8280 3 жыл бұрын
Dont make humor from swamp life. All of the people before me had knowledge about swamp cures, culture and have told me things and I've lived through many events real strange that I cannot explain. Just dont ask how I know. Wild south Louisiana
@dougarnold7955 3 жыл бұрын
@@paullanier8280 Interesting. 😁👍 I lived in Louisiana for about 8 years. I didn't live in the southern swamps though. (Nachitoches area, Castor, and Baton Rouge)
@paullanier8280 3 жыл бұрын
@@dougarnold7955 Doug Arnold, it is not far from where you lived ( Swamp culture ) in the places you mentioned. I've left the area but returned and its home forever for me. Be good, man.
@Redhawk85 7 жыл бұрын
Heard this on a friend's collection of songs at his New Year's party and had faint memories of it when I was a kid, so I looked it up and found someone posted this nostalgia treasure. Thanks - you did a nice job with the video, too.
@divinecovenanthippy6197 5 жыл бұрын
Haven’t heard this song since I was a kid WHAT MEMORIES 🥰🥰🥰 LOVE THE VISUAL EFFECTS!!! ❤️❤️❤️
@jasennice3743 2 жыл бұрын
Most haunting song of the 20th century. All in favor say aye!
@lindahicks1269 3 жыл бұрын
Love this old song.
@honestj820 11 ай бұрын
Hello how are you doing..?
@drivernjax 5 жыл бұрын
This was, to me, one of Jim's best serious songs. Although he was best known for his novelty songs, I really did like this type of song from him.
@eoj2495 4 жыл бұрын
One of my all time favorites; grew up in Florida, spent a lot of time out in the Glades and around lake Okeechobee.
@ChrisJohnsonChannel 2 жыл бұрын
I heard this song as a kid(I’m 48 now ) and for years and years and years I tried to find out the name of it I always thought it was called black bayou or Something .. I had to have heard it on 8- track cassette or something back when I was 10 maybe and I finally found it here THANk YOU
@davedennis6042 6 ай бұрын
When I was a kid, we lived Mississippi not far from Lauderdale. The Southern pines surrounded the house and gave life to Hattie's tale. Those chords and words were haunting and chilling make your blood run cold. I always got a chill when I sit and listen to the stories the old folks told. I've never been back, but I tell you a fact I promise this one thing is true. I never went down to Hattie's shack in the back of the Black Bayou.
@melissagerber7231 8 жыл бұрын
Hattie wasn't evil, she just wanted to be left alone.
@doughesson 7 жыл бұрын
Get off my yard you kids!
@melissagerber7231 7 жыл бұрын
doughesson Pretty much.
@Jetfire-kk1ti 7 жыл бұрын
She was willing to co-exist with the townspeople, but she would NOT tolerate any snoopers.
@alainmartin939 7 жыл бұрын
WHAT s THAT NONSENCE CO-EXIST AND MESS AROUND.
@Rizky06 7 жыл бұрын
We only saw her when her Social Security check didn't clear.
@willowwinterbourn2010 6 жыл бұрын
being a Witch,I can really appreciate this,,Thank you so much for sharing this video
@justplainbrad7713 3 жыл бұрын
Willow Winterbourn - Are you saying, "you are a long cool woman in a black dress"? If you really are a witch, then you had a portent this reply would happen.
@stephanieredden8861 3 жыл бұрын
A lot of memories with this song and the video is phenomenal!
@justice255 5 жыл бұрын
jim stafford a blast from the past .. loving it
@batlady2 10 жыл бұрын
Matt you don't know what it means to me when someone pays a nice compliment on my videos like the one you just paid. Thank you so very much for taking the time to do that. I am no real artist myself. I just like to celebrate those who are.
@juanitashatley9438 7 жыл бұрын
WOW NOTHING LIKE SPIDER'S AND SNAKES I HAVE NEVER HEARD THIS TUNE BEFORE...AWESOME THANKS✌💛😂♌
@williamnorton9547 7 жыл бұрын
Juanita Shatley By any chance have you seen the video of Jim Stafford on the Smothers Brothers show where he's playing Don't Pet The Dog?
@juanitashatley9438 7 жыл бұрын
William Norton sure haven't... But I will check it out thanks✌💛😂♌🇺🇸 I will let ya know....
@juanitashatley9438 7 жыл бұрын
Ha ha that was cute thanks... Never knew Jim Safford was a get in the smothers Brothers alot or to young to remember it...LOL✌😂💜♌🇺🇸
@johnnymia1563 8 ай бұрын
ELENA & ASH from ‘Morbid’ podcast recommended you AND I love you already! Thank you !
@spencerbeales8965 3 жыл бұрын
There was talk of a hangin too , but the talk got shackled by the howles and the cackles from the bowles of the black bayou....
@aaronbennett8364 Жыл бұрын
Just played this at a Halloween in July event and it was very well received.
@radishfox308 Жыл бұрын
This is only Halloween-ish song I know besides the gold standard... Monster Mash 🤣
@bradchartrand6748 4 жыл бұрын
Fore sure that's when music had a story line that made it worth listening too.
@earlstevenson8109 2 жыл бұрын
Always liked his songs,and still do,at 63
@carltondaniel107 Жыл бұрын
I wish a lot more people knew about older country music it had a lot more soul than people thought did today's kids don't understand that
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